History

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. “You need to see how historical narratives are made.” To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki…

U.S. Marines with Company G, 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, direct a concentration of fire at the enemy during Operation Allen Brook, 8 May 1968. www.tecom.usmc.mil. Colored version available from: Wikimedia Commons, By the end of 1967, almost 20,000 Americans had…

This month marks the 175th anniversary of Elizabeth Blackwell’s graduation from medical school, making her the first woman to be registered to practice medicine. Read more about her achievements in the field of public health. Elizabeth Blackwell, 18c. Stamp. US…

In honor of the Iowa caucus and the impending presidential election, this week’s blog features one of our CDC volumes, The American Presidency.  Edited by Jeremy Bailey and intended as a secondary and post-secondary document reader, American Presidency contains 39 introduced and edited primary sources, discussion…

In any class that focuses on the Founding era in our MA in American History & Government program (MAHG), you’re almost certainly going to discuss Federalist #1 and how often human history is shaped by “accident and force” instead of…

What is it like to attend a Teaching American History multi-day seminar? It’s like meeting 20 distant cousins for the first time and discovering that you share a love of American history. Or it is like an old-fashioned religious revival…

Walter Reed Hospital Flu Ward. Harris and Ewing (1918) Library of Congress. Lutiant LaVoye volunteered to serve as a substitute nurse during World War I with little to no training or nursing experience. As a recent graduate of Haskell Institute, an…

For the past year, staff and faculty members at Teaching American History have heard from our teacher partners that they want election materials!   We know you want to help your students better understand today’s political environment by providing them with…

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content…

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior.  For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core…